Category Archives: Canada
Canada's two new astronauts get rousing ovation at space agency near Montreal
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Joshua Kutryk and Jennifer Sidey have no shortage of tasks to accomplish as the new Canadian astronauts navigate their space careers, but one remains high on their to-do lists: inspi...
Jul 04, 2017
Cleanup continues at derailed freight train site, oil spill
PLAINFIELD, Ill. - The effort to clean up 40,000 gallons of crude oil continues south of Chicago where a freight train derailed last week. Canadian National Railways spokesman Patrick Waldron said Mon...
Jul 03, 2017
Indigenous families need reassurance as inquiry director resigns, group says
OTTAWA - An Aboriginal group is calling on organizers of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls to be more transparent about how the process will move forward with t...
Jul 03, 2017
Canadian doctor shot at New York hospital recovering after surgery, father says
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - The father of a Canadian doctor who was among the wounded in a shooting at a New York City hospital last week says his son is doing well after undergoing surgery. Justin Timperi...
Jul 03, 2017
GoFundMe campaign launched to help young siblings who survived deadly crash
YORKTON, Sask. - A GoFundMe page has been started to help two children who survived a Saskatchewan highway crash, but who lost their mother and baby brother. Tristian Bellegarde told CJME radio that h...
Jul 03, 2017
Initial findings from necropsies suggest blunt trauma for two whales found dead
NORWAY, P.E.I. - Marine mammal experts have released their initial findings after hauling three of the six North Atlantic right whales found dead in Canada’s eastern waters to the shore for post...
Jul 03, 2017
Canadian woman and her husband found dead in New Mexico, state police say
ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Police in New Mexico are investigating after a Canadian woman was found dead with her husband inside a pickup truck on the shoulder of an interstate highway. The bodies of Ursula Ta...
Jul 03, 2017
Arrest made in case where mother fought off man who allegedly tried to take girl
WINNIPEG - A suspect has been arrested in a case where police say a Winnipeg mother had to fight off a man who tried to abduct her four-year-old daughter. Police over the weekend asked for the public&...
Jul 03, 2017
Two Navy members linked to Canada Day incident at Indigenous ceremony
HALIFAX - A spokesperson for the military has confirmed that two members of the Navy were involved in a confrontation at an Indigenous ceremony in Halifax on Canada Day. The servicemen are believed to...
Jul 03, 2017
Iraqi Kurds want same right to self-determination as Quebecers: Diplomat
OTTAWA - A senior representative for Iraq’s Kurdish region is defending her people’s plan to hold a referendum on independence, saying they simply want to exercise the same right to self-d...
Jul 03, 2017
